O'Brien v. O'Brien

Pitney, V. C.

This is a bill filed by a wife against her husband, for suppor and maintenance, under the twentieth section of the Divorce act.

The statute declares that if

“a husband, without any justifiable cause, shall abandon his wife or separate-himself from her, and refuse or neglect to maintain and provide for her, it *437-shall and may be lawful for this court to decree and order such suitable support and maintenance, to be paid and provided by the said husband, for the wife and her children, or any of them, by that marriage, or out of his property, and for such time as the nature of the case…